I like the new marin.community website. Easier to follow along our 535B 26A hero run. mtracker.oa.dev/hero-run-535b
Marin
marin.community
Al Merose
@al.merose.com
Differential database administrator. Machine learning for climate & weather. Ex-Google Research, Founding Member of Technical Staff @OpenAthena.ai. Tinkering with xql.systems. He/him.
Have they ever heard of www.openvax.org? What if I told you those people are now my coworkers, and we’re giving away our AI-enabled bio research for free? A better world is possible.
OpenVax
OpenVax is a group at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. We develop open source tools for personalized cancer vaccines.
openvax.org
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 24h agoJoining the war against cancer on the side of cancer
Neat talks hosted by Motherduck yesterday. I’ve been interested in zarr and using it in SQL w/o xarray for messing with geolibre things, cool to see. Also good to hear Motherduck taking the AWS news well, hopefully bodes well for the future of DuckDB.
Al Merose@al.merose.com · 4d agoA new xql.systems friend of mine, Stephen Kent, just built this animated weather map using my @zarr.dev extension for @duckdb.org, using the ARCO-ERA5 dataset which I created while at Google. It still feels unreal that you can write a SQL query to produce a weather map all in the browser via wasm.
A new xql.systems friend of mine, Stephen Kent, just built this animated weather map using my @zarr.dev extension for @duckdb.org, using the ARCO-ERA5 dataset which I created while at Google. It still feels unreal that you can write a SQL query to produce a weather map all in the browser via wasm.
ERA5 window map
duckdb-geo-zarr.netlify.app
If you're just joining me from the AI Knowers starter pack, I talk about how that community helped me be a better agentic engineer and how I got into AI in this interview.
Open Athena@openathena.ai · 6d agoAlex Merose @al.merose.com was headed into design until a friend showed him a demo: audio windows shrinking until noise resolved into sound, tuned by ear—a preprocessing step for a brain-computer interface. He is now MTS at OA, working primarily on Samudra with NYU & MIT. Meet Alex: bit.ly/oa-alex
Alex Merose @al.merose.com was headed into design until a friend showed him a demo: audio windows shrinking until noise resolved into sound, tuned by ear—a preprocessing step for a brain-computer interface. He is now MTS at OA, working primarily on Samudra with NYU & MIT. Meet Alex: bit.ly/oa-alex
It looks like JAX can now run in the browser: anutosh21.github.io/jax-wasm-demo/ I wonder what kind of cool weird things this will enable
JAX in WebAssembly
anutosh21.github.io
Hey, I’m giving a talk in SF this Thursday at the @motherduck.com meetup: luma.com/md-duckdb-aug Come if you want to hear about array databases running on DuckDB, or just want to say hi irl.
MotherDuck + DuckDB August Meetup · Luma
Duck into the final stretch of summer with data talks, duck drops + good company at our August meetup. We'll be talking both about AI (of course), but also how…
luma.com
If you’re just joining me now from the AI Knowers starter pack, I mostly post about my work on AI for weather and climate, or my schemes to make ML models run on SQL inside a database
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AI knowers starter pack? I thought it was an Al knowers starter pack
Doll@dollspace.gay · last wk.if you're just joining it now from the AI knowers starter pack, beware that doll is a posessed victorian doll and it will crawl through your ventilation systems until you put it on your payroll.
This is what they took from us when they killed the Inflation Reduction Act, aka the Green New Deal. In a parallel universe, we could be driving cheap electric broncos 400mi on a single charge off road. insideevs.com/news/804026/...
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For just $32,000, China’s electric Bronco has plenty to offer, including over 400 miles of range.
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Had a dumb little question for claude: what if the mandlebrot style fractal incorporated the fibonacci sequence? The result is this fractal that I hadn’t seen before
A surprisingly difficult part about putting a calculus engine inside a database is that SQL doesn't have good complex number support.
I used to work on this team when I was at Google Research! A huge congrats to my coworkers' Nature paper for their work on spicy autocomplete.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 4w agoinitially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones
Incredibly impressive work
Gonzalo Benegas@gonzalobenegas.bsky.social · 4w agoExcited to share MarinDNA, a 1B gLM that rivals Evo 2 40B on variant effect prediction while being 2,330x faster. With @eczech0.bsky.social, we built around a standard Transformer so we could reuse LLM infra and methods while focusing on data curation and scaling. openathena.ai/blog/marin-d... 🧵
LLMs in coding harnesses are 100% neurosymbolic programming. One may ask: Is NSP doomed to this arrangement, with tools and programs bolted on after-the-fact? If you disagree like I do, check out this program synthesis experiment, Kelp: github.com/Open-Athena/.... What is the right middle ground?
GitHub - Open-Athena/Kelp
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Programming is built on paradoxes. Reality has an infinite amount of detail. The programs will get more abstract, powerful, expressive, etc., but they will never go away.
𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · last mo.maybe we get higher-level high level programming languages out of all this, for exactly that reason 🤔
A program is a specification for what a computer should do. By this definition, “vibe coding” is also coding. It matters not whether the specification is in assembly, Python, or English.
You will live to see your greatest intellectual aspirations dismissed as trivial
Here's the tale of how @jder.bsky.social and I scaled Samudra, a neural ocean emulator capable of predicting 8 years of the ocean on a single GPU, to operate at a full 1/4° resolution (16x the size in bytes). It was quite a humbling process.
Open Athena@openathena.ai · last mo.Simulating ocean climate takes a supercomputer 4,600+ CPU cores to produce 12 simulated years per day (SYPD). Samudra 2 produces 4,800 SYPD on 1 GPU at the same resolution. In a new blog, @al.merose.com reports on Samudra, a neural ocean emulator built in collaboration with NYU & MIT: bit.ly/oa-ss
I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com
Logic for Programmers
Practical math for the working programmer.
logicforprogrammers.com